Sunday, January 22, 2012

Just how stupid are we?

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We blahblah about wind, solar, and corn ethanol while the Chinese and Cubans drill in the back yard.

And we may prove it again by re-electing Obama.

We are so stupid we might re-elect the man pushing 'comfort care only' for the over 70 crowd. Since most people hit 70 these days, or at least have a loved one that will, or has, we are proving ourselves to be really really stupid.

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Iraq has invited foreign companies to compete for a $450 million monorail project in the southern holy city of Kerbala, which hosts millions of Shi'ite pilgrims each year.

The rail line is among many road, railway, port and power projects needed to update decaying infrastructure in Iraq after years of war, economic sanctions and underinvestment.

Taif Abdul-Hussein, head of the Kerbala investment commission, said on Sunday the 18-km monorail would be built from a northern entrance to the city to the main Shi'ite shrines in the central area and then towards the northeastern city entrance.

Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, hosts the shrines of two Shi'ite imams and is the site of several major religious rites.

"The project has an economic advantage and will solve the (problem of moving) throngs of people during religious events," Abdul-Hussein told Reuters.

The train would be capable of speeds up to 100 km per hour and the line would have a station every 900-1000 metres, Abdul-Hussein said.

Iraqi officials have ambitious plans for rail lines, including one for a multibillion-dollar Baghdad metro. None has yet been built as the government struggles to provide basics like electricity and water.

In June 2010, the southern city of Najaf awarded TransGlobim International, a privately-owned Canadian consortium, a $600 million contract to build the country's first monorail.

In January 2011, France's Alstom signed a memorandum of understanding to build metro line above Baghdad's streets. (Reporting by Aseel Kami; editing by Jim Loney and Hans-Juergen Peters)

ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. is committed to maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers despite budget pressures, in part to project sea power against Iran the Middle East.

Panetta also has told about 1,700 sailors on the USS Enterprise that the ship is heading to the Persian Gulf region and will steam through the Strait of Hormuz in a direct message to Iran.

BUENOS AIRES — Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro — below a mile of water and two miles of shifting rock, sand and salt — is an ultradeep sea of oil that could turn Brazil into the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, behind Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

The country’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, expects to pump 4.9 million barrels a day from the country’s oil fields by 2020, with 40 percent of that coming from the seabed. One and a half million barrels will be bound for export markets.

While "o" calls for a different set of Standards, for Mr Adler than that used for other, unhyphentated, Americans.

The "Standard", other are charged with attempted assassination of the President, when they shoot at the White House. Even when the President is not around the building, but is in Hawaii.

A man who shot an assault rifle at the White House is one of only a handful of people ever accused of trying to assassinate the president, and if the past is any guide he could spend many years in prison or a mental hospital if convicted.

The Atlanta paper ran an unmistakeable threat on the life of the President, and distributed it through the US mail.

That is a crime worthy of five years, hard time, in the Federal pen.

Mr Adler should not be "on the street" but incarcerated, awaiting trial.

He is a threat to society, the common good, and is deserving prosecution for his crime.

Proof positive of the danger hyphenated Americans pose to our society and political culture.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a telephone call yesterday, told Obama “Canada will continue to work to diversify its energy exports,” according to details provided by Harper’s office. Canadian Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver said relying less on the U.S. would help strengthen the country’s “financial security.”

The “decision by the Obama administration underlines the importance of diversifying and expanding our markets, including the growing Asian market,” Oliver told reporters in Ottawa.

That the "over 70 crowd" has so fully embraced their socialized medical delivery system, living on the redistributed wealth of others, they do not have a reasonable cause for complaint, when they do not "get it all".

Move to Mexico and "pay as you go", boobie, if the Federal system here in the US does not suit you.

In Newt's speech, yeterday, he highlighted the Army Corps of Engineer's eight year study of dredging Charleston Harbor. Noting that WWII was over and done in under four years. Though he did not mention the continued military occupation of Germany and Japan, since Victory was secured.

If one could believe that the on-call historian for Fraudie Mac "really" had seen the light ...

Well, his rhetoric was stirring, even if his past personal behaviors are typical DC.

He did embrace Doctor Paul on the issue of the Federal Reserve, though. The question, can he be trusted, to deliver upon the rhetoric that is "right"?

The resurgence of deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has the region on track to return to normal by year's end, boosting profits for oil field services companies, analysts say.

The Gulf comeback improved year-end financial results for Schlumberger, the world's largest provider of oil field services and equipment. The company reported a 36 percent increase in its fourth-quarter profit Friday.

"We are quite optimistic on the outlook for the Gulf of Mexico," Schlumberger CEO Paal Kibsgaard said during a conference call with analysts. "We should be at pre-Macondo levels for deep-water drilling rigs by the latter part of 2012."

After a catastrophic rig explosion and oil spill at BP's Macondo well in 2010, the federal government imposed a six-month federal moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf, forcing some offshore rigs out of the area.

There were 45 rigs stationed in the Gulf this week, compared with 27 during the same week in 2011, according to the Baker Hughes rotary rig count.

Kibsgaard said he expects a new rig to enter the region each month in 2012.

Deep-water drilling is thriving in the Gulf of Mexico‎Fort Worth Star Telegram - Jan 2, 2012By early 2012, the Gulf will have more rigs designed to drill in its "deep water" -- defined as 2000 feet or deeper -- than before the spill. ...

That happens, anoni, when there are major blow out disasters that effect entire regions.

A reassessment of safety requirements were required and implemented.

Though there are still those that object to deep water drilling

There was one response sent to BOEM in a different form: a lawsuit filed last month on behalf of four national conservation groups.

“They’re now approving drilling in the Gulf on the premise that it has no potential for significant environmental impact and we just think that is not correct,” said Catherine Wannamaker with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Atlanta which is representing the conservation groups.

According to the law suit, BOEM is using in its environmental impact statement a “risk model” that was formulated before the Deepwater Horizon spill. Therefore, the groups allege that containment and recovery measures required under government regulations would prove inadequate if another catastrophic spill were to occur.

They also fault the drilling industry’s $1 billion “rapid response” equipment that was required under the new regulations and is now standing by to be floated out to stop and contain a blowout.

“I think we’re relying on very untested and unproven methods that wouldn’t capture even a fraction of what could be a very large spill,” Wannamaker told StateImpact Texas.

The BOEM said it couldn’t respond since the legal action was on-going.

The disaster, in the Gulf of Mexico, increasing safety concerns, whirled wide.

DRILLING OF Otto Energy Ltd. and partner BHP Billiton Ltd. in Southwest Palawan may be delayed as its drilling rig failed to pass tests, the companies said in a statement yesterday.

“BHP Billiton has issued a termination notice for the Transocean Deepwater Expedition rig due to the rig not passing key acceptance tests. Otto Energy advises that at this point the date for commencement of drilling of the Cinco-1 well is yet to be confirmed,” Otto Energy said in its statement.

When compared to the eight years that the US military has been "studying" the Charleston Bay project, five years under Bush and three with Obama, as Newt reported, the Federals certainly moved quickly in reopening the Gulf of Mexico to deep water drilling.

The Agency that was tasked with supervising offshore drilling was so corrupt, and non-efficient, that Obama had to shut it down, and entirely replace all of it's supervisory, and many of its employees in a new agency.

The Agency that was tasked with supervising offshore drilling was so corrupt, and non-efficient, that Obama had to shut it down, and entirely replace all of it's supervisory, and many of its employees in a new agency.

Presumably he wanted someone like the Solyndra management team there instead.

then that proves her online persona has been one giant falsehood since the start.

I have been in a chat room on IRC called #scripture for fifteen years. They get far more angry in there than anything you've seen in the blogosphere, and also there is a lot of chicanery in the form of adultery, etc. To set my husband's mind at ease, I posted under a false black triangle flag so there was no possibility of cyber sex or anything like that. After I developed cancer, I came clean to everyone on IRC because I was asking God for a miracle at the same time I was lying in the chat room.

The whole idea of Solar, and Wind is you build the Solar/Wind Farm, and from there on out very little labor is required, and you don't have to mine, and transport ever more scarce (and expensive) feedstocks.

Ms T: To set my husband's mind at ease, I posted under a false black triangle flag so there was no possibility of cyber sex or anything like that. After I developed cancer, I came clean to everyone on IRC because I was asking God for a miracle at the same time I was lying in the chat room.

Interesting, picks a symbol from the holocaust (for which she admits was a lie), trashes jews, israel and zionism on a hourly basis and then says she asks "g-d" for a miracle.

We went around this is Miss T gay or straight non sense one other time that I know of. She's gay as a goose, a straight wouldn't know all the intricate details she has mastered. Least, that's what I think.

I quess I mis spoke above. I have paid my, and my family's health insurance all my life until now. Now I just pay for my family. In a way I am beginning to think I made a mistake. Though on the other hand I really don't much care whether I stay or go. Like Woody Allen, it's not death I worry about, I just don't want to be there when it happens. :) I always loved that line.

"The Obamas truly feel like victims. But Newt Gingrich, who campaigns by attacking the culture of victimization, plays one on stage. He soared at the Charleston CNN debate by brazenly proclaiming himself the victim of “the elite media protecting Barack Obama” (the same Obama who told Time he was victimized by the press). Newt’s gambit was a calculated way of deflecting attention from a charge by his second wife, Marianne, that the family values he preaches are hypocritical platitudes, given his cheating ways with two wives he divorced when they were ill. "

Your latest pivot on 'who you are' lends credence to WiO's accusations that the cancer play is just bullshit as well. Typical of liars is eventually no one believes anything they say. Sorta like the Israelis gotta suffer in the bed they've made so do you.

Your latest pivot on 'who you are' lends credence to WiO's accusations that the cancer play is just bullshit as well

I wish that was so, because I maxed out my out of pocket last year, and might do it again this year. Every three weeks I get a $2,700 chemo, and we're in for 10% of that. Also I get zapped with gamma rays every day, and it's starting to smart, and I have a very dark brown square patch of skin on my chest where they took one of my "girls" and left a nine inch scar.

We went around this is Miss T gay or straight non sense one other time that I know of. She's gay as a goose, a straight wouldn't know all the intricate details she has mastered. Least, that's what I think.

When you are losing the battle on content, throw in the red herring, change the subject.

You are projecting.

As to a battle of wits, you jest.

As to WiO's spelling, I could not care less. You, howeve, presumed to lecture me and others on military "personell" and "anonymonypony". If the game is too rough, go home.

Sun Jan 22, 08:43:13 AM EST

Sun Jan 22, 08:44:00 AM EST

Too rough?

:)

You prove my point with your own words. The subjects we were discussing were, in your words, military "personell" and "anonymonypony"; yet, when you were losing the battle on the content of those subjects, you once again shifted the subject, this time to spelling and punctuation. You are the flim-flam man, master of the red herring. Diversion is your tool. You indulge in selective poutage (my new coined term).

The fact that you condemn yourself with your own words? Unsurprising, thus my comment about your lack of wit.

The fact that you thought this subject important enough to bring your post forward from the last stream? Amusing, at least to me.

Christie: "Gingrich is an embarrassment to the party." Newt Gingrich pioneered the destructive, vicious, negative nature of politics in the '90's. Now he complains about it. Meanwhile Gingrich Republicans welcome back John Edwards & Anthony Weiner admitting they were wrong about them the whole time.

As for the post, the main problem might be the crew on that rig. Due to our goofy cold-war embargo, they're being forced to drill with a minimum of U.S. parts on the rig, and, a possibly substandard crew.

But it should have been obvious from the start. A gay Catholic Republican? Sheeyeah right.

It's funny you say that because after making that comment about there being a God, I went to your website, only because you always preached paganism. When I found you were a Roman Catholic I thought that to be very hypocritical.

You don't have to apologize, but that was nice of you. My opinion of you hasn't changed.

You just crushed my dreams and now my future plans to visit Washington will just not be as exciting as I thought it would be.

You're right Ash. But I have several lesbian friends who grew up in a Catholic church. Once they didn't have to live their lie anymore and knowing they would never be accepted by the church they got out.

In Jewish legends, Lilith was Adam's first wife, created from the same soil at the same time as Adam, rather than from his rib like Eve, his second wife. Lilith left her husband when she refused to accept the missionary position that Adam insisted on doing, since it left the man on top. Cursed by God, Lilith became a she-demon who roamed the night looking for the souls of newborn infants to steal, but the prophet Isaiah foresaw that she would find rest in the Messianic Age.

What a load of horseshit...

Yep I was right, Ms T, you are a jew hating, Judaism trashing, anti-zionist scum bag.

"In Jewish legends, Lilith was Adam's first wife, created from the same soil at the same time as Adam, rather than from his rib like Eve, his second wife."

What a load of horseshit...

I suppose you should change the Wikipedia article then:

In Jewish folklore, from the 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira onwards, Lilith becomes Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs.

If I relate the Lilith myth from the Jews' own tradition, WiO adds that to the stack of charges of me trashing Judaism. Basically, anything I say, no matter what it is, gets added to the stack. No wonder WiO is up to "thousands" of charges by now.

If I relate the Lilith myth from the Jews' own tradition, WiO adds that to the stack of charges of me trashing Judaism. Basically, anything I say, no matter what it is, gets added to the stack. No wonder WiO is up to "thousands" of charges by now.

Nothing you say about Jews, Israel or Zionism will ever be listened to without applying the tarnish you infact have created.

Dry Falls now but it was a bitch to inner tube back then. Fishing was good at the base, and, upriver, the fly fishing was terrific. From where that picture is looking the falls area goes miles and miles thata way.

We used to hit that falls going about 65mph. So fast would knock the dildo outta a glee girl.

You are quite a piece of work.

Stick to NON-Judaic subjects.

She certainly should. While she knows her Huck Finn she doesn't know even squat about the Bible, or even the Christian part of it. As to her knowledge of Judaic subjects as a whole, I rely on WiO's judgement.

From a courtroom in Manhattan, not far from the epicenter of the nation’s financial crisis, a longtime federal judge is becoming a hero to many and a nightmare to some for demanding greater accountability in cases of alleged Wall Street fraud.

Jed S. Rakoff is driving regulators nuts by refusing to rubber-stamp the kind of deals that have long defined Securities and Exchange Commission justice — boilerplate settlements in which companies use shareholders’ money to pay fines while they neither admit nor deny doing anything wrong. The latest example called for Citigroup to pay $285 million for alleged misconduct during the mortgage meltdown...

Second, Rakoff isn’t just calling for Wall Street to be held accountable. He’s also insisting that the government be held accountable when it uses its power to make accusations and exact penalties. Law enforcement, he argues, should be more than a government shakedown.

“An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous,” he wrote. “If its deployment does not rest on facts — cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials — it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.”...

"CAIRO — Followers of a puritanical form of Islam will fill about a quarter of the seats in the lower house of the new Egyptian parliament on Monday, underscoring the political power being wielded by Islamists in the wake of the Arab spring.

Finding themselves badly outnumbered, some Egyptian liberals are weighing whether to align themselves with the moderate Muslim Brotherhood in hopes of preventing an all-Islamist alliance between the Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party will be the largest in the new parliament, and the ultraconservative Salafist Nour party, the second-largest...

Whoops. The article from my previous post was from the WaPo not the NYT. From the same article,

"Members of the Salafist Party say they are trying to counter what they call a smear campaign trying to depict them as uncompromising and scary conservatives who will transform Egypt into a rigid Islamic state like Iran or Saudi Arabia.

They have stated publicly that they would conditionally respect the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and have tempered language about Islamic tourism and banking laws that scare foreign investors. The party has expressed interest in tacit agreements with liberals on social issues, such as striking the hated emergency law..."

(Reuters) - Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.

It’s a good step for Arizona to take to keep pressure on Congress to uncover the scandal of OF&F. It’s also a handy bit of payback. The Obama administration sued Arizona for requiring law enforcement officers to check immigration statuses on detained suspects and succeeded in blocking implementation of the Arizona legislature’s new law. Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the federal government has the sole prerogative in determining how federal law gets enforced, or apparently whether it gets enforced at all, and that the state of Arizona needed to butt out. Now Arizona might just focus on state law to ensnare some of Holder’s associates — and perhaps even Holder himself — for violating state gun regulations in their zeal to paint gun dealers as amoral mercenaries profiting by arming the Mexican drug cartels.

A judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and can't be president.

It's one of many such lawsuits that have been filed across the country, so far without success. A Georgia resident made the complaint, which is intended to keep Obama's name off the state'sballot in the March presidential primary.

An Obama campaign aide says any attempt to involve the president personally will fail and such complaints around the country have no merit.

The hearing is set for Thursday before an administrative judge. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi on Friday denied a motion by the president's lawyer to quash a subpoena that requires Obama to show up.

The Brady Bunch vacation in Pyongyong goes bad. Hijinks ensue. Greg gets put in a tiger cage (I mean, talk about extended Tiki curses!) Peter builds a volcano and the North Korean government wants to use it to destroy Seoul. A frog lands in the Great Leader's pizza. North and South Korea go for the teeter totter world record. Kim Jung-un can't get over his fear of heights until he rescues Bobby's bird.

I had seen that Lilith story on the tellie, then found this at a site other than wiki.

The Hebrew Lilith

When Jewish patriarchy overtook the land, they made Lilith evil in order to stop the people from worshipping her.

In Kabbalistic tradition, Lilith was made the first wife of Adam. Some sources say that Lilith was Adam's spirit wife. Other sources claim that Lilith was fashioned from the earth at either the same time as Adam or before Adam. This made Lilith Adam's equal.

As Adam's equal, Lilith refused to lie on her back while Adam took the dominant position in sex (missionary style). Lilith believed that they should make love as equals (the beast with two backs). Adam was adamantly against this, wanting his wife to be submissive, and Lilith left the Garden of Eden.

God then supposedly gave Adam Eve, a docile woman of the flesh.

Eventually, Lilith was portrayed as the foe of Eve. It was Lilith in serpent form who seduced Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge. No doubt the first wife wanted the second wife to see what a jerk Adam was and that Lilith also wanted Eve to open her eyes and come into the fulness of herself, her womanhood.

When both Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam endured a period of celibacy as penance. During this time, Lilith was said to have caused nocturnal emissions from Adam (night hag). She collected his semen and impreganted herself with it, giving birth to demons.

These children of Lilith were called Lilin or Lilim, "night-demons."

The goddess who once protected mothers and infants was now portrayed as a demoness who caused abortions and murdered infants in their sleep. The Jewish people believed that when a baby laughed or smiled in its sleep, it was being entertained by Lilith, and the parents would quickly bop the infant on the nose to distract the infant from the goddess. It was also believed that she came to children in the form of an owl and drank their blood.

Despite the Jewish attempts to erradicate this ancient goddess, she can still be found in her truer, albeit symbolic, form in their literature:

"During a protracted and dangerous confinement take earth from the crossroads, write upon it the five first verses of this Psalm, and lay it upon the abdomen of the parturient; allow it to remain until the birth is accomplished, but no longer. . ."

In Hebrew legend, Lilith is Adam's first wife. She refused to have sex with him because she did not want to be beneath him.

She left him and was cursed to give birth to one hundred demon children a day who were then killed. She was said to take Her revenge for this curse by stealing or killing human children. Her name means "Screech Owl" or "Night Creature".

She is mentioned in the Bible: as the Hebrew God, Yahweh, threatens the destruction of Edom (a land located to the south and east of the Dead Sea) He describes what will happen after it is laid waste: "...The night creature shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest" (Book of Isaiah, chapter 34, verse 14). Like in the Inanna legend, Lilith's presence symbolizes a dark time of fear or desolation.

Lilith was also believed in Jewish folklore to be a succubus, a sexual vampire or demon who came to men at night and caused wet dreams. The Queen of Sheba, portrayed in some legends as a seductive temptress or sorceress, is associated with Lilith in Jewish tradition.

The earliest representations of Lilith seem to be as a great winged Bird Goddess, a wind spirit, or one associated with the Sumerian, Ninlil, Goddess of the Grain, and wife to Enlil. As the “hand of Inanna”, Lilith was notorious for bringing men from the street and fields of war to Inanna’s temple for holy sexual rites, in which the intention was to civilize the people. The sacred sexual customs were, in fact, considered the greatest gift of Inanna.

As Adam’s first wife, however, Lilith really got into trouble with the patriarchy. She had the audacity to want to be treated as Adam’s equal.

According to Hebrew mythology, the Babylonian Talmud, the Zohar, and the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith refused to lie below Adam, and thus set the archetypal example for later feminists.

God allegedly threatened her by decreeing if she did not submit to Adam, that “one hundred of her children would die every day.” Lilith chose exile.

Which really got Adam’s goat! Despite being ostensibly happy about having Lilith out of his life (and later blessed with a subservient, if not occasionally misguided Eve), Adam apparently never gave up resenting Lilith for having chosen exile to being with him.

Just a few days ago, many commentators were suggesting that Romney was likely to win South Carolina, and when he did, the GOP nomination would be his. Now Romney has been soundly rejected in the first primary in the South, the rock-solid base of the Republican Party.

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Gingrich's success here in South Carolina shows more than just a skepticism toward establishment Republicanism. It also shows a hunger for real substance in the campaign, for a candidate who will talk to voters and give them more than phrases like "I believe in America."

Mitt Romney's team of seasoned campaign professionals may not think Newt Gingrich has any business playing a deciding role in the race. But they better believe it, and they better take seriously what the Gingrich challenge represents -- before it's too late.

Presented here is a chapter discussing Lilith, taken fromHebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (New York: Doubleday, 1964), pp 65-69. Graves and Patai have collected traditional Hebrew myths that amplify (and sometimes radically alter) stories found in the Book of Genesis.

This chapter, titled "Adam's Helpmeets", deals in part with the Lilith myth. Each section of the chapter excerpted here recounts a "story" collected from non-biblical sources, frequently the Talmud -- sources are footnoted. The footnotes are followed by notes of author commentary. Hebrew Myths is recently back in print in a new hardcover edition -- Buy the Book. (A much more extensive discussion of Lilith is found in the The Hebrew Goddess, also by Rapael Patai. The Hebrew Goddess is in print and is listed next....)

According to midrashic literature, Adam's first wife was not Eve but a woman named Lilith, who was created in the first Genesis account. Only when Lilith rebelled and abandoned Adam did God create Eve, in the second account, as a replacement. In an important 13th century Kabbalah text, the Sefer ha-Zohar ("The Book of Splendour") written by the Spaniard Moses de Leon (c. 1240-1305), it is explained that:At the same time Jehovah created Adam, he created a woman, Lilith, who like Adam was taken from the earth. She was given to Adam as his wife. But there was a dispute between them about a matter that when it came before the judges had to be discussed behind closed doors. She spoke the unspeakable name of Jehovah and vanished.

I guess her hubby could still run for the seat, but I do not think he will. It is a different media market, so ...

(CNN) -- Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced on her website Sunday that she will resign from Congress this week to continue her recuperation from the brain injury she suffered when shot just over a year ago.

You are correct when you say it is unimportant, as all myths are equally unimportant.

It was pre-dawn, and in the gloomy light that was beginning to gather, Robyn could take a better look at Lilith. The girl was three years younger than herself, but there was an aged look in her hollow eyes, as though she had already lived four lifetimes, and it haunted Robyn. A kind of Darwinian process in the camps had produced a girl who was able to outwit, bribe, or intimidate anyone to get what she needed to survive.

Robyn knew nothing of this yet, but somehow she saw the results right on Lilith's surface, and suddenly, more than anything in the world, she wanted the girl on her team.

"Do you live here, at the lighthouse?" Robyn asked her.

Lilith nodded. Robyn didn't know anything else about her, other than her name. The work camps had emaciated her body, and when she returned home to the Isle of Wight and was fed by her father, the weight came back in the form of strong, wiry muscles. She was eighteen but looked twice that. Robyn assumed she was married, and asked, "Is your husband here?"

"My father is here," she said. "He operates the lighthouse and runs a weather outstation."

"I should like to meet him," Robyn said.

Lilith spat at the ground. "He has sold his life to the Goy and betrayed the destiny of my nation to rule Palestine."

"The Goy? Goyim. You're Jewish!"

Lilith nodded. "I am a member of a people whose very right to exist is always being questioned."

"And when you say your nation, I presume you are not speaking of England."

"My father rendered a service to the Crown that went far beyond the sacrifices that any other Britons were asked to make. No doubt you have heard of the cross-Channel invasion of France. I believe you American's refer to it by 'D-Day'. My father provided the weather forecast that made it possible. But beyond that, he was used by the government to help deceive Hitler as to exactly where the invasion was going to take place. A British admiral came here and told my father we were going to land at Calais on June the 20th, 1944, and not at Normandy on June the 6th. He was told this knowing there was a strong possibility that a team of Nazis could storm the lighthouse from a submarine and force my father to talk."

"The cynicism of such a thing is breathtaking," Robyn said.

They planted false information on my father," Lilith continued, " and the Nazis did indeed arrive, and not only did my father talk, but he was kept silent about his talking by the simple device of taking myself and my moth-er to occupied Europe as insurance. We ended up in camps, and I watched my mother die in a most horrible way."

And Lilith showed Robyn the six numbers tattooed to her arm by the SS at Ohrdruf. Robyn gasped, knowing that Lilith had come through such suffering and human degradation and evil that she could never begin to understand the mere periphery of it, let alone sympathize with the core of the girl's ordeal and her memories of it.

"So you see, the Crown owes a very large marker to my father, but he will not cash it in to obtain a thing, a concession of such little import it could not possibly disconcert the government in the smallest way. The Foreign Secretary refuses to allow Jews to immigrate to the British Mandate in Palestine. Not even Jews who are already British subjects."

"Why not, Lilith?"

"Oil."

One word, but it explained everything. The Middle-East was awash in petroleum, but if the Arabs could not be assured that the Jews would never have an independent state there, they would attack the wells owned and operated by the British. So the Balfour Declaration and the Churchill White Paper were torn up for the worthless pieces of paper they always were, and all bets were off in the Holy Land.

"If people want to discriminate against someone based on their commitment to tithe, I'd be very surprised," Romney said. "This is a country that believes in the bible.

The bible speaks of providing tithes and offerings. I made a commitment to my church a long, long, time ago that I would give ten percent of my income to the church.

And I followed through on that commitment. And hopefully as people look at the various individuals running for president, they'd be pleased with someone who made a promise, a promise to God, and kept that promise."

Cunningham’s attorney Tobin Romero suggests his client is being scapegoated:

“Department of Justice officials have reported to the Committee that my client relayed inaccurate information to the Department upon which it relied in preparing its initial response to Congress. If, as you claim, Department officials have blamed my client, they have blamed him unfairly.”

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Romero claims Cunningham did nothing wrong and acted in good faith, but the Department of Justice in Washington is making him the fall guy, claiming he failed to accurately provide the Oversight Committee with information on the execution of Fast and Furious.

A new gadget will be clipped to the waistbands of Fairfax County Public Schools students next year, and no, it's not a strange revival of the beeper.

Rather, school officials will equip kids with pedometers, which they will be expected to wear sunup to sundown, up to 35 days per school year. The small electronics will track how many steps the child takes each day as part of a $2.1 million federal grant to track students' nutrition and physical activity over three years.

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Supervisor Pat Herrity, R-Springfield, said he was frustrated that the schools had sought funds to document a problem he believes is self-evident. "It seems to me that money could be better spent eliminating some of the barriers that we put in place to the kids actually participating in sports," he said.

A teacher at West Australian University reminded her pupils of tomorrow's final exam. "Now listen to me, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack, a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that’s it, no other excuses whatsoever!"

A smart-arsed teenager at the back of the room raised his hand and asked, "What would happen if I came in tomorrow suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?"The entire class was reduced to laughter and sniggering.

When silence was restored, the teacher smiled at the student, shook her head and sweetly said,

“Make no mistake about it. This is the beginning of Watergate Two or ObamaForgeryGate. I believe this is the second time in the U.S. history a sitting president is ordered to comply with a subpoena, and produce documents, which might eventually bring criminal charges to the president and a number of high-ranking individuals,” Taitz said.

“What a joke. He claims to be too busy performing the duties of the president of the United States. How many days of vacation has he taken? How many rounds of golf? If he is too busy to provide the documents that provide the basis for meeting the requirements of the office, then perhaps he better sit out the next four years,” said one.

Wrote another, “The election of President Obama by the presidential electors, confirmed by Congress, makes the documents and testimony sought by plaintiff irrelevant. … This is complete utter nonsense!”

In fact, a presidential elector in California brought a lawsuit challenging Obama’s eligibility at the time of the 2008 election and was told the dispute was not yet ripe because the inauguration hadn’t taken place. The courts later ruled that the elector lost his “standing” to bring the lawsuit after the inauguration.

Irion said his argument is that the Founders clearly considered a “natural born citizen,” as the Constitution requires of a president and no one else, to be the offspring of two citizen parents. Since Obama himself has written in his books that his father, Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan, and thus subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, Irion argues that Obama is disqualified under any circumstances based on his own testimony.

Turkey squarely is an important country whose foreign policy reorientation changes the balance of power in the Middle East in favor of the radical Islamist forces. It is negatively affecting the pro-Western orientation of the Central Asian republics.

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But of all the world’s leaders, one of the five Obama feels closest to is Erdogan. Obama says that he shares a “friendship and bond of trust” with Erdogan.

Ann Coulter: "Now you have to get people who voted for Obama and having a candidate who goes out and calls Obama a ‘Kenyan colonialist,’ that is not what you need. And at the same time, with Newt Gingrich you get the name calling for the president — very popular with the tea party crowd in South Carolina, not so popular with independents. He won’t put a fence on the border and wants amnesty for illegals. He took $1.6 million from Freddie Mac. But you know, he attacked Paul Ryan’s plan on Social Security. So with Newt Gingrich, you throw out the baby and keep the bath water... I think South Carolina is going back to their Democratic roots."

While the roots of conservative, anti-elite sentiment are at least partly grounded in substance, the reaction to it is all identity politics. In his victory speech Saturday night, Gingrich -- a millionaire former party leader and corporate lobbyist now living in McLean, Va. -- railed against "Washington elites," to thunderous applause.

Given his record, it may be implausible that Gingrich can pose as anti-establishment. But the establishment is certainly anti-Newt.

Ms T aka Zena aka Teresita aka Lesbian spokesperson for all Jew haters of the world has now confessed that she has been lying for years and is actually pro-israel blogger that is scared of cyber stalkers and is straight and married.

What part of "give me a break" does she not get?

Dear Ms T,

Please post anything you wish on any topic expect Jews, Israel, Zionism, Torah, Judaism, Zohar, or Kabbalah. Your opinion when it comes to those subjects are like assholes, everyone has one and your's certainly does stink.

Talk about the Church, Jesus, Football, PC's verse Macs, paper verses plastic for all I care, but you have proved that you have no ability, ethics or every decency about discussions that revolve around my tribe in any way shape or form.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.